[tor-bugs] #4207 [Tor Directory Authority]: allow directory authorities to badexit by country code

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#4207: allow directory authorities to badexit by country code
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 Reporter:  arma                     |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect                   |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  minor                    |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.3.x-final
Component:  Tor Directory Authority  |        Version:                    
 Keywords:                           |         Parent:                    
   Points:                           |   Actualpoints:                    
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 Now that we have many thousands of users in Syria, some dozen of them
 click 'share' each day.

 There's a broader discussion to be had here around whether these are
 useful relays for the Tor network at all (generally the relays we have
 there are short-lived and trivial-capacity, so maybe it doesn't matter so
 much), but I don't think we want to subject our users in the 'free'
 countries (whatever those are) to Bluecoat's filters.

 I was going to go make a few hundred authdirbadexit lines when I realized
 that the authorities already have a geoip db built-in and they could just
 do the lookup themselves.

 I marked 'minor' priority since whether we actually want to deploy the
 feature probably wants more discussion.

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